Eta suspects extradited
UK police confirm three suspected members of the Eta terrorist organisation have been extradited to Spain.
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Tuesday, 08, Jan 2008 05:07
Three suspected members of the Eta terrorist organisation have been extradited, British police have confirmed.
The three suspects - including two men in their 20s and a 29-year-old woman - were arrested in the Sheffield area on April 24th 2007 by officers from the Metropolitan police extradition unit and South Yorkshire police, following the issuing of a European arrest warrant.
Spanish authorities had alleged that Inigo Maria Albisu Hernandez, 24; Zigor Ruiz Jaso, 29; and Ana Isabel Lopez Monge, 36; were members of Eta and had participated in a 2006 bomb attack on a naval building in Spain.
Their extradition was ordered on August 17th last year, with their removal from the country on a 12:00 GMT flight today following the exhaustion of all of their appeals.
The three had appealed to the high court in London last month, with their lawyers arguing extradition would subject them to inhumane treatment and degradation.
Melanie Cumberland, representing the Spanish judicial authorities, told City of Westminster magistrates' court in August that Ruiz Jaso was believed to be responsible for a February attack in Morico, Spain, for which Eta claimed responsibility.
Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna, or Eta, which means Basque homeland and freedom, has violently campaigned for independence from the seven regions of northern Spain since the 1960s.